TheSonarSuit
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After building both of Daft Punk's helmets last year I learnt an awful lot, they were my first large scale project and with them came a whole array of new techniques and materials I hadn't used before. After looking back on them now after learning all these processes I felt I could do a much better job on these helmets and with the new album came the new helmet design for Guy Manuel giving me an opportunity to begin again.
Research and pre planning was something that needed to be built upon vastly compared to the last time I attempted this so I scoured the internet for reference photos and built up a small library. I was able to use the different shots I found to create technical drawings in Illustrator. I overlayed my work onto multiple photos of Guy's helmet until it matched well in all the profile and front on shots I had and I was confident it was accurate.
To test scaling I first printed the design onto card, luckily I had scaled it to the correct height on first go... I think. So I was ready to transfer the plans to MDF.
The pieces were all slotted together and held together from the tight joins so glue wasn't really necessary, but I tacked a few of the joins with superglue to make sure nothing shifted whilst I worked on it.
Blocks of carving foam were glued onto the MDF and shaped with a rasp and sandpaper to get the rough overall shape. Once that was done the foam was sealed using resin before I added the first skim of Body Filler.
Next step is shaping the dome :cool
Research and pre planning was something that needed to be built upon vastly compared to the last time I attempted this so I scoured the internet for reference photos and built up a small library. I was able to use the different shots I found to create technical drawings in Illustrator. I overlayed my work onto multiple photos of Guy's helmet until it matched well in all the profile and front on shots I had and I was confident it was accurate.
To test scaling I first printed the design onto card, luckily I had scaled it to the correct height on first go... I think. So I was ready to transfer the plans to MDF.
The pieces were all slotted together and held together from the tight joins so glue wasn't really necessary, but I tacked a few of the joins with superglue to make sure nothing shifted whilst I worked on it.
Blocks of carving foam were glued onto the MDF and shaped with a rasp and sandpaper to get the rough overall shape. Once that was done the foam was sealed using resin before I added the first skim of Body Filler.
Next step is shaping the dome :cool
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